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Many Jets fans risked weather reports of intermittent showers to get their first glimpses of the next era of Jets football during last week's three days of open full-squad minicamp practices.

Transcripts of interviews with selected Jets players during locker room media availability Thursday afternoon: S Eric Smith On playing in a Rex Ryan defense I'm enjoying it.

Transcript of Jets head coach Rex Ryan's news conference Wednesday afternoon: First off, Channing Crowder had a rebuttal [laughter]. I love it.

Jets wide receiver Brad Smith got some reps at the team's minicamp out of the "Wildcat" formation, which keys on versatile offensive players like the former college quarterback.

As minicamps go, this was rather eventful. Let's call it the big talk, big money minicamp, which ended today in Flo P. Rex Ryan made headlines with his mouth, engaging in a long-distance trash-talking bout with Dolphins LB Channing Crowder.

Highlights of Rex Ryan's talk with reporters Thursday at the conclusion of a mandatory minicamp: On Mark Sanchez: "Wow, what a day." On the quarterback competition between Sanchez and Kellen Clemens: "If we could vote on who we thought would be it, we wona t do it know but, I bet there would be half one way, half the other way on how it was going ...

The smell of burnt rubber wasn't detected in the parking lot, and there weren't any NASCAR-type celebration doughnuts singed into the asphalt.

Rex Ryan was at it again today. One day after playfully firing back at a verbal barb thrown at him by Dolphins' chatty linebacker Channing Crowder, Ryan took another swipe at him after Crowder fired at him.

Smith, the fourth-year safety, had a huge day Tuesday with three interceptions in the first two practices of the full-squad minicamp.

As morning practice began Tuesday for the Jets , it was Kellen Clemens taking the snaps with the first-team offense.

" The rookie quarterback Mark Sanchez finished his first week of minicamp practices with the Jets on Thursday.

Dave Hutchinson at the New Jersey Star-Ledger tries to separate fact from fiction as it pertains to the looming wide receiver battle.

I'm putting this at the top, because the Jets vibes seem to indicate that they feel they need not just a QB, but a franchise QB.

Mock drafts, Google News searches, RSS feeds, and all of my bookmarked sports' sites have given me a lot of the same.

As the Jets continue the post-Mangini era, it will be interesting to see if their drafting style changes.

The veteran feels Rex Ryan's arrival is going to help him have more of an impact this season.

This guy is as tough as a barbed-wire sandwich. What he lacks in speed, he makes up for with physical play and tenacity.

It is well-known that draft classes can only truly be graded once the class is in their third year or later.

Mike Jurecki and Dan Bickley of XTRA radio had fun with Cardinals receiver Anquan Boldin on the air .

Posted on April 16th, 2009 by Angel Navedo Cardinals' coach Ken Whisenhunt has gone on record saying Anquan Boldin could be traded before the draft .